Publications
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2024
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This study examined the economic potential of thinning in pure, even-aged Norway spruce and Scots pine forests in Norway based on simulated stand dynamics using plot data from the Norwegian national forest inventory. Simulated management scenarios included fully mechanized thinning from below of varying intensity including no thinning. The economic evaluation was based on comparing the equivalent annual annuity of the unthinned scenario and the economically best-performing thinning scenario for each studied plot. The findings suggest that only late thinnings in well-stocked stands with sufficiently large trees are economically beneficial. Furthermore, to be economically superior, a thinning intervention itself had to generate enough profit, meaning that the revenue from thinning needed to sufficiently exceed the costs. Profitability of thinning scenarios varied with discount rates and timber prices and depended on whether rotation age was based on maximum net present value or maximum mean annual increment. Thinning was less often profitable in pine compared to spruce stands. This study is among the few that model stand development considering post-thinning stand structures with systematic machine trails while assessing the profitability of such thinning operations.
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Dylan Grobler Juliana D. Klein Matthew L. Dicken Kolobe L, Mmonwa Michelle Soekoe Michaela van Staden Snorre Hagen Simo Maduna Aletta E. Bester-van der MerweAbstract
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Daniel Korir Sitienei Endale B. Gurmu Andreas Wilkes Jane Poole Svenja Marquardt Phyllis Ndung'u Alice A. Onyango Lutz Merbold Agustin del Prado Guillermo Pardo Dominik Wisser Lydia Lanzoni Michiel Scholtz Constantine Katongole Vibeke Lind Mohammed Habibou Assouma Luc Hippolyte Dossa Linde du Toit Todd Rosenstock Peter Steward Jesse Kagai Million Tadese James Gibbons Idowu K. Odubote Christian A. Bateki Bernard Kimoro Claudia ArndtAbstract
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Endale B. Gurmu Andreas Wilkes Jane Poole Svenja Marquardt Phyllis Ndung'u Alice A. Onyango Lutz Merbold Daniel Korir Sitienei Agustin del Prado Guillermo Pardo Dominik Wisser Lydia Lanzoni Michiel Scholtz Constantine Katongole Vibeke Lind Mohammed Habibou Assouma Luc Hippolyte Dossa Linde du Toit Todd Rosenstock Peter Steward Jesse Kagai Million Tadese James Gibbons Idowu K. Odubote Christian A. Bateki Bernard Kimoro Claudia ArndtAbstract
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Nina Trandem Olle Anderbrant Glenn P. Svensson Christer Löfstedt Elisabeth Ôberg Ann-Kristin Isaksson Hanh Huynh Kimmo Rumpunen Line Beate Lersveen Sigrid Mogan Gunda Thöming Marja RantanenAbstract
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Inger MartinussenAbstract
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Lampros LamprinakisAbstract
The chapter addresses the impacts of ethics in business’ competitiveness as they are naturally emerging in an embedded firm—i.e., a business organization that is “lifted out” from its market environment and instead explicitly takes into consideration social and environmental factors—e.g., socio-historical capital, environment, local resources, etc. In doing so we adopt the realist approach of the “soft” Polanyian interpretation of embeddedness where business organizations retain their corporate nature and continue to operate in the market economy; embeddedness is then built around the market economy and is expressed on the way the business organization is active in its relevant markets. Capital accumulation and other conventional corporate goals continue to drive the firm’s behavior which is now further impacted by local socio-ecological systems and a greater sense of responsibility and purpose.